Hi! Thanks for your question. How would you bring the arms into position? Simply changing the position of the arms (without wrapping them independently of the body) would likely not be something that a model could hold. The arms would want to return back to a more neutral position. But we always encourage safe, thoughtful experimentation and believe that shibari is like Lego (meaning you can create all sorts of things with just a few building blocks). Check out Armbinders for Everyone for some ideas on how to modify the strappado/armbinder position for different bottoms. And if you're feeling inspired by something in the mayfly harness that you want to try out, give it a go and let us know what you discover.

Yes! Great question. These hangers are sometimes called Epsilons (which reference the loopy, circular nature of both how we tie the hanger and how that letter is often written). They are also sometimes called Y hangers because, when finished, they look like a Y from a Latin alphabet. 

Hi! Thanks for your question! This tie is designed to be pretty torturous, and the easiest suggestion for how to keep it more sustainable would be to simply play with it as a partial. However, you could try incorporating a Hip Loader into it (as you see Gorgone do with the Butterfly Harness). It's possible that just that extra support would be helpful, and if not, you could more directly load the hips with an epsilon that you could pull from the front (like you see in the Study on Falling class, but loading from the front of the body not the back). If you give any of these things a try, come back here and let us know how it goes!

You're right! Back in the day we edited videos differently than we do now. Now we make sure to show you everything that happens. But you're totally right that something was edited out here :)

Where Gorgone adds two half hitches, you could add more to bring the yuki knot more center between the two cuffs and load them more evenly. Give that a try and let us know how it goes! If you're not on Discord yet, you could also join our members only Discord space. It's a great place to ask questions like these. The community there is super helpful and it's nice to be able to share pics as well. 

We would love to hear advice from other self suspenders here! This would also be a great question to ask the folks in Discord. Are you a part of that space yet? So much great advice on adaptations over there. Something you could try would be to friction the top wraps into the diagonal passes of rope that are opening up your diamonds. So bringing the rope around the body and into the diamond, pulling the diamond open, and then half hitching around the first diagonal pass and the top wrap as you come back around the body. This might create some uncomfortable pressure points, but if you experiment with it, let us know how it goes either here or on Discord! 

Great question! The answer really is to talk with your bottom and figure out what works for them. A few landmarks you could use though for initial experimentation: try placing the top wrap below the shoulder blades and also below the tip top of the armpit on the back and front (so you can see where the skin of the arm/armpit meets the upper body on both sides. You could also use the base of the deltoid as a landmark and try placing a top wrap there initially. Anna Bones also has a few tips for laying your top wrap in her Forms and Ropes class.

Notice in the Hip Loader that the place where the rope would naturally want to cross is very far forward relative to where we want the friction to go, so pre-crossing isn't so ideal here. In the Hip Harness, the rope naturally crosses itself right where we're building our friction, which makes this an ideal choice in this instance. 

Thanks for your questions! The simple answer is that we usually go over to make a munter hitch (and under to make an X friction). It's not strictly necessary to do it this way, but if you reversed either of those things you would get a friction that looks different than what you're used to, as you'd be looking at the "backside" of it.The answer your question about crossing your ropes in the leg wrap is related to the above answer. Gorgone's Hip Harness uses X frictions at the thigh. It's often easier to "pre-cross" your ropes when making X frictions, otherwise you finish a cuff and then need to go over one pass and under the stem, whereas if you pre-cross, your running line comes around the body right next to the stem and you get to have control over precisely where the cross happens. 

You’re definitely encouraged to lab whatever ideas this video inspires! Likely you’ll find that using a basket tie will create more stability, less choice between standing up vs laying on belly rope, and therefore less of a “predicament” experience for your bottom.